so true... There are good people in public education ..
failed systems, bad politics hurts all.
i have numbers of teachers/counselors in my family/extended family. i encouraged our children to teach when they were in college, i suggested it, anyway. two very different students, one answer: No way. they said they knew no others choosing teaching.
my dear mil graduated hs early, she began teaching at age 16 in a one room schoolhouse. some of her students were older/bigger than she. they did not harm her. these were Depression years. poverty to the max. she taught herself tailoring, she became a wiz at taking old clothes, remaking them, so she would have clothes to wear! no patterns!
she lived at home, her meager income went to help her family. these people put us to shame.
she continued to teach until retirement. she added ed until she obtained a college degree. heavily invested.
learning and teaching runs deep in U.S. psyche.
since the 60’s, politicians have ruined public ed.
teachers were too nice.
they allowed self-serving politicians to dump every adult failure onto their shoulders and unprepared students’ shoulders to “fix” then they walked away and went on to their next project. it’s too much.
what other group of workers would have allowed such massive interference into their occupations as teachers/schools did, and continue to do?! lots of people think nothing of expecting schools to be the cure-all/catch-all for all of society’s woes.
when i think about it, it’s WHACKED.
boundaries need to be established, different area populations/cultures need different responses.
what’s currently coming out of the DOE and the White House should be criminalized. Betsy DV was incompetent, these guys are far worse than incompetent. teachers+schools need to draw a line in the sand: BACK OFF.
labeling Josh and others heartless is not a constructive response. ignoring/disrespecting his intended OP is not constructive.
here.it.is.